Top Tips for Helping Your Child Learn a New Language
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Learning a second language unlocks countless doors throughout life. It not only improves a person's career opportunities but broadens their social sphere.
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Fun Activity Ideas for Parents Raising a Bilingual Child
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Raising bilingual children is a rewarding and challenging thing, one that I am thankful to be doing every day. While my kids aren’t always as interested in traditional learning, they are open to activities where learning does not feel to be the primary goal.
Read MoreHow to begin your child's bilingual education
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The topic of raising Bilingual Children is how Mammaprada all began. We don't profess to be experts, we are simply parents hoping to pass on the best of our dual heritage to our children and to give them, in our eyes the benefit of two languages.
Read MoreHow fluent would you like your child's language to be?
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How fluent would you like your child's language to be?
Bilingual Children - Week #21
This week on Bilingual children I’m sharing a document I’ve created on levels of fluency.
It’s very easy to have in your mind that you would like your child to be bilingual without maybe considering what this really means.
If you think long and hard about how you would like your child to use a language; where they will use it? How well they will speak it? This will help you decide how much learning and effort needs to go into the process.
Read MoreThe trials of raising a bilingual child in small-town Italy
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The trials of raising a bilingual child in small-town Italy - Guest post by Rochelle Del Borrello
This week I'm delighted to welcome Rochelle Del Borrello from the wonderful blog Sicily Inside & Out Rochelle is an Australian with Italian heritage and lives in Sicily. She is married to an Italian and has been raising her little boy with her native English from birth. I love that she explains so well the real daily challenge of raising a bilingual child. You do need to be persistent but the rewards are immense! I’m very excited to look for podcasts for children as well!
Have a read of her lovely insights into raising a child in the minority language but in an area of Italy where English is not widely spoken.
Read MoreHow to nurture happy bilingual babies, minus the anxiety
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How to nurture happy bilingual babies, minus the anxiety
Bilingual Children - Week #19
Welcome back to Mammaprada! I feel like we are starting afresh with the new school term.
I hope you all had a lovely Summer and had some time with friends and family either at home or abroad. What did you get up to? Tell me below in the comments!
Thank you to everyone who is a regular reader of Mammaprada. It's great to have you back again and there is A LOT coming over the next few months. I will have both of my children in school finally! So my capacity has increased and all the little projects I've been dying to get off the ground I am hoping will come to fruition!
Read MoreThe Bittersweet Life; a perfect podcast on life in Italy
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The Bittersweet Life; a perfect podcast on life in Italy
If you love a podcast or need a reason to start listening in, this is your chance!
The Bittersweet Life is a podcast run by two expats, writer Tiffany Parks and radio producer Katy Sewell. It's based on their unique experiences of life in Rome. The wonder and yet sometimes the bittersweet aspects of life abroad.
Read MoreTips For Submitting Minority Language to Memory
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Bilingual Children - Week #13
All words are equal, but some words are more equal than others
When I started attaching a word of the day to the front door before going to work, back in September 2016. I didn’t have a real plan: I didn’t know how long it would have lasted for, I didn’t focused on any particular group of words.
I didn’t set a target . It was only my genuine desire to grow my son’s vocabulary in the minority language. A simple yet unrefined attempt to boost the number of words he could understand and pronounce in Italian.
It was a Monday to Friday exercise and started almost by chance.
Read MoreBilingual Children - Week #1
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Our Bilingual Week
I'm starting a new series on Mammaprada. Every Wednesday I will give you a little insight into our bilingual learning. What has challenged us and which products we've found useful. There will be some interviews with others raising bilingual children, an expert in the subject or a creator of a product or service which helps us all in raising our children bilingually.
Read MoreLanguage learning tricks: Flashsticks!
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Every morning when my son comes down for breakfast there's a piece of paper waiting for him on the inside of the front door...
It's not a creative postman! But an Italian word left there by Papa' Prada.
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